The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-04-16
CURRENT TOPICS.

ONE Lima (O.) barber advertises to
shave six men in ten minutes.
A NBw York woman has sent cards to
friends announcing her divorce.
UNDER the new law there are to be no
more public hangings In Missouri.
THERE are ten thousand women in Gin
cinnati who earn their own living.
THERE are 10000 unmarried men in
Paris against 600 married men.
WALES (the country has positively re-
fused to join in the Victoria jubilee.
No city in the United States has relative
ly so large foreign population as Chi
cago.
THE entire total of the Hebrew race on
the surface Of the globe is estimated at
6,3OO 600
THOSE who formerly held free passes are
now spoken Of in railroad circles as ex-
dead heads.
FIRST the President married, then Sec
retary Lamar, and now 1t is said to be Sec
rotary Bayard.
HERR KRuPP is going to start a first-class
daily newspaper at Essen for the use of his
10000 workmen. ALI.
A DISEASE embracing many symptoms Of
lent in New Jersey.
SEVENTEEN thousand dollars is what it
cost the city Of New York to send three
Doodle aldermen to Sing Sing.
Four new postoffices have just been es-
tablished with the euphonious names of
Piggs, Dump, Pulse and Malaria.
GENERAL ScHENcK is living quietly in
Washington with his daughters, who arc
intelligent and entertaining ladies'.
ROBERT 7. LINCOLN offers the Springfield
homestead to the State Of Illinois on con-
dition that it be preserved with care.
THE New Jersey Senate has passed bill
providing for the free transportation Of
Legislators on all railroads in the State.
GEORGE NJ. PULLMAN, the millionaire
sleeping-car Knight, commenced his busi-
ness career in Chicago, as house-raiser.
THE Congress of Churches and Christians
recently in session at Chicago, condemned
free-masonry and all other secret soci-
cites.
DIR. HENRY d. CoGswELI, the San Fran
cisco millionaire, has given $1,000 600 to
found trade school for boys and girls in
that city.
FIVE hundred dollars was paid for let
ter in Philadelphia the other day to pre-
vent it from being read in o "fashionablan
divorce case.
THE toilets Of 100 ladies who formed the
cortege at a recent carnival ball In Vienna
were valued at s255, 900, and the diamonds
at 81, 100000.
No DAKOTA Indian will wear an eagle
feather unless entitled to it, as they be-
lieve it will fly away from their heads if
worn unlawfully.
FIFTEEN cows huddled in Northern Pa
cific railroad cut to keep from freezing to
death, and freight train came through
and killed all of them.
M. LAcoMBE, an ingenious sFrenchman, has
succeeded in taking long-distance photo
graphs by fixing telescope in front of the
objective of the camera.
PEACE between Germany and the vati-
can seems to be assured. Pope Leo has
expressed his satisfaction with the atti-
tude of Prince Bismarck.
THE New York Herald is urging that the
Territory Of Alaska be made penal colony
to which all the States of the Union can
send their contributions.
A WORK by Meissonier, 1011 by Az, illus
trat;ng horse soldier on outpost duty, is
ohC SOotlCoU WdtcT COlOT III Uuc WOrlu, De.
ing valued at over $500
Mrs. FREDERICA ECHARTE, Of East Thir-
ty-second street, New York, imagines her.
self the wife of the Creator, and will not
be convinced to the contrary.
THERE is o rich man in the Black Hills,
says the Bismarck Times who dates the
beginning of his fortune from the day
when he sold his wife for $1,000.
TIL. will of a married woman Just pro-
bated in Kingston, N. Y, is peculiar in
that it gives all her property to her hus-
band for life, or as long as he "remains
unmarried"
ENOUGH crimes are being laid at the door
of Mr. Kissane alias Titus alias Rogers to
give rise to the suspicion that he is being
made scapegoat for the sins of all the
other California "49ers."
A MAN near Greeley, Col, had thirty
acres of land which he could neither sell
nor mortgage, and in despair he went out
and struck coal vein thirteen feet thick
and sold the land for $4,000.
The Washington Capital says ssthe state
ment that the four Interstate Commerce
Commissioners who came to Washington
last week travelled on free passes is libel
ouS, anu, we nope, untrue"
The crank who exploded bomb in the
Grand Opera-house at San Francisco has
explained that he wanted to end his life
while Patti was singing, so that he could
be her page in the spirit land.
SHORTLY after her marriage the Sultan
of Turkey generously offered Mrs. Cleve-
land the decoration of the Order of the
Caliphat, but she declineS it, and the Incl
dent has just been made public.
NEW YORK proposes to spend $5, ,OOO, 900
in the improvement of it's streets, 81, ,OOO,-
600 to be spent each year until the work of
furnishing the city with entirely new paw
ing OF the best material is finished.
OLD JOHN BRowN's diary was taken from
him at Harper's Ferry with other papers,
and is now in the possession of the Gov
ernment. In the diary is a list of the rev.
olutionist's colleagues, and opposite Fred
Douglass name Is the comment "unreli-
able" ...
Hon. w. L. ScoTT forgot to draw his sal
ary as member Of the Forty-ninth Con-
gress until few days ago, when some one
reminded him, while in Washington, that
there was little balance of q, 900 due him
on that account.
ONE Of the most eccentric rich men in
New York city is the venerable Benjamin
Richardson. He is said to be worth ~, ,OOO,-
QUO or more, but lives In a small tumble
down house in Harlem. He holds a mort
gage for $4,000 against one Of the most
prominent insurance companies in the
city. Mr.. Richardson owns the historic
washington coach, which he let's out when-